ENVIRONMENT

How Your Used Mascara Brushes Can Help Wild Animals in Need

The tiny bristles are perfect for cleaning fly eggs and larva from fur.

Chris via Wikipedia Commons // CC BY 2.0

How You Can Help Protect Migrating Birds

Experts say collisions with windows are a “preventable problem.”

Small Dietary Changes Could Bring Big Environmental Gains

It could save the U.S. $77 billion (or more) in healthcare costs and reduce each person’s greenhouse gas emissions by nearly 500 pounds per year.

NASA/Kathryn Hansen via Flickr Creative Commons // CC BY 2.0

Experts Predict Widespread Ocean Warming by 2050

Up to 86 percent of the ocean surface will be warming and acidifying within the next few decades—unless we take steps to prevent it.

4 Reasons Why You Shouldn’t Feed the Birds (Or Any Animals)

Step away from the bread.

What Do Those Numbers on the Bottom of Plastic Bottles Mean?

The single-digit stamp helps determine the ultimate fate of your trash.

Siberia’s "Door to the Underworld" Is Growing

A result of climate change, the chasm has revealed long-lost forests and the preserved remains of prehistoric animals.

Watch: Why the World Is Slowly Running Out of Sand

Beach sand is actually a valuable resource.

Our Pollution Has Now Reached Deep-Sea Animals

Scientists found high levels of contamination in two of the deepest ocean trenches.

Michael David Murphy via Wikimedia Commons // CC-BY-SA-2.5

Climate Change Is Altering One of Utah's Most Famous Works of Art

Soon, the art piece could be marooned away from the shores of the Great Salt Lake.

Ireland Looks to Become First Country to Stop Funding Fossil Fuels

The Irish Parliament has just passed a bill to halt all public funding of coal, oil, and gas companies.

Hybrid Electric Bus Can Charge When It Pulls Up to a Stop

It takes seven minutes to fully charge the battery.

People Waste More Food If They Have the Option to Compost It

Food waste is bad all around, even if it's handled in a responsible manner.

California Condors Will Be Reintroduced to the Wild

Government agencies and the Yurok tribe are teaming up to try to restore the endangered bird to its historic habitat.

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service // Public Domain

Watch: Malaria and Silent Spring

Scientists use Rachel Carson's 1960s-era lessons to fight malaria today.

Eating Shellfish Likely Means Eating Plastic, Scientists Say

The amount of plastic in our oceans—and thus in our seafood—is rising.

With Training, We Can Learn to Spot Fake News

Researchers say we can inoculate ourselves against fabrications the same way we would a virus.

Deep-sea urchins are seen in an ocean trench near New Zealand.

8 Surprising Facts About the Deepest Part of the Ocean

Just a handful of people have ever been to the deepest part of the ocean, but what we've learned about life in the hadal zone is astonishing.

Meet the 7-Year-Old Boy Who Runs His Own Recycling Business

Ryan Hickman's business, “Ryan’s Recycling," has recycled approximately 200,000 cans and bottles.

9 Ways Christmas Trees Are Reused After the Holidays

Discarded trees are the gifts that keep on giving.

Yym1997 via Wikimedia Commons // CC BY-SA 3.0

Pollution Can Give You High Blood Pressure

Prolonged exposure to dirty air can lead to an increased risk of hypertension.

NOAA Okeanos Explorer program, Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, and U.S. Geological Survey

U.S. Creates Protected Zone for Atlantic Deep-Sea Corals

The Frank R. Lautenberg Deep Sea Coral Protection Area is off-limits for commercial fishing practices that affect the sea floor.

Could Feeding Seaweed to Cows Help Save the Climate?

Scientists were able to reduce methane production by 99 percent in preliminary tests on artificial cow stomachs.

This Company Uses Trash From Haiti to Create Ethical Fabrics

Thread International tries to combat the pollution of the fast-fashion industry.

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